In an age when Christendom bled at its borders and faith was defended not by words alone but by steel and sacrifice, one man stepped forward to answer a question that still confronts Catholic men today.>What does it mean to give your entire life to God without reserve? That man was Hugh de Payens, the first Grand Master of the Knights Templar.>He was not a king. He was not a bishop. He did not found an empire.

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